"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

"It is a subtle truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 88 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 75."

"Wisdom principle 59 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 56."

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."