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

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

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.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

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

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.