Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.