If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Category Archive: May 4
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people… now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Evil and good are God’s right hand and left.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.