"Who knows how great and good a race of men may yet arise from the forming hands of mothers, enlightened by the bounty of their beloved country?"

A Plan for Improving Female Education | 1819

"Would we rear the human plant to its perfection, we must fertilize the soil which produces it."

A Plan for Improving Female Education | 1819

"Any women has a right to open a school in any place; and no one, either from law or custom, can prevent her."

A Plan for Improving Female Education | 1819

"Though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest."

A Plan for Improving Female Education | 1819

"The taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has been made a standard for the formation of the female character."

Mrs. Willard's Plan of Female Education | 1819

"It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them."

A Plan for Improving Female Education | 1819

"We too are primary existences . . . the companions, not the satellites of men."

Mrs. Willard's Plan of Female Education | 1819

"Without alteration there can be no improvement."

A Plan for Improving Female Education | 1819

"He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle."

How to Teach | published 1851

"Take care of health; for without it existence is, for every purpose of enjoyment, worse than a blank."

Care of Health | published 1851