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

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

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

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

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

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

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

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

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.

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

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

What do you want?"To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.