With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

My wish is to be known only thru my work.

The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished.

Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable: My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.