Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

Education is the science of relations

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.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.