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

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

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.

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

There is no education but self-education.

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.

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.