There is no education but self-education.

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more.

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

Education is the science of relations

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.