The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.