The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.