many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.