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.

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

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 small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

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

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

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