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There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Praise to our Father-God,
High praise in solemn lay,
Alike for what His hand hath given,
And what it takes away.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

The soul of woman lives in love.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire
Of subterfuge and treachery.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years
the language of the soul, told through the eye.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side ... is like gold to its possessor ...