We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

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

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.

Education is the science of relations