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

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

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.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.