“Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.”

“All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.”

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call...”

“In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place...”