Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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

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.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

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.

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