No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
The fearful are the failing.
... 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.
The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.