argument by which he supports this opinion is, that no man departs
from these principles with impunity.--ENFIELD.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is
everywhere the same, because it comes from God.--VOLTAIRE.

MOTHER.--The mother in her office holds the key of the soul.--OLD PLAY.

There is a sight all hearts beguiling--
A youthful mother to her infant smiling,
Who with spread arms and dancing feet,
A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.
--BAILLIE.

"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in order
that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the
reply. The emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here,"
said he, "is a system in one word."--ABBOTT.

A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
--COLERIDGE.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may
become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives
their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good
repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a
mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from
his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that
once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout
of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never
be brought to think him all unworthy.--WASHINGTON IRVING.

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a
mother's love!--MARCHIONESS DE SPADARA.

I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers
shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins
of fathers.--DICKENS.

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other
mothers venerable.--RICHTER.

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal
lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside,
are never effaced entirely from the soul.--LAMENNAIS.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.--GEORGE HERBERT.

"An ounce of mother," says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of
clergy."--T.W. HIGGINSON.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
--HOLMES.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and
he is still but a child, h