Parents Are Too Apt To

The Education Of The Present Race Of Females Is Not Very Favorable To Domestic Happiness. For My Own Part, I Call Education, Not That Which Smothers A Woman With Accomplishments, But That Which Tends To Consolidate A Firm And Regular System Of Character; That Which Tends To Form A Friend, A Companion, And A Wife.

Among The Many Evils Which Prevail Under The Sun, The Abuse Of Words Is Not The Least Considerable. By The Influence Of Time, And The Perversion Of Fashion, The Plainest And Most Unequivocal May Be So Altered, As To Have A Meaning Assigned Them Almost Diametrically Opposite To Their Original Signification.

The Modes Of Speech Are Scarcely More Variable Than The Modes Of Silence.

Luxury! More Perilous To Youth Than Storms Or Quicksand, Poverty Or Chains.

Subduing And Subdued, The Petty Strife, Which Clouds The Colour Of Domestic Life; The Sober Comfort, All The Peace Which Springs From The Large Aggregate Of Little Things; On These Small Cares Of Daughter, Wife Or Friend, The Almost Sacred Joys Of Home Depend.