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

There is no education but self-education.

Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

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

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

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.