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.

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

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

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

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.

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

A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator