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

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.

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

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

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

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.