Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

Education is the science of relations

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.