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

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.