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.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.

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

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.

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