Jane, the salvation of society depends on good mothers, and if women decline to be mothers at all, it is a shameful and dangerous situation." "Oh, no! Why should I, for instance, undertake the reformation of society?
I wish rather to educate and reform myself." "All right! No education is too wide or too high for a mother.

She has to educate heroes, saints, and good workers.

There would have been no Gracchi, if there had been no Cornelia; no Samuel, if Hannah had not trained him.

The profession of motherhood is woman's great natural office; no others can be named with it.

The family must be put before everything else as a principle." "John," she said coaxingly, "you are so far behind the times.