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.

Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.

Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

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

So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

There is no education but self-education.

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