Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.

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.

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.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.