None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.
Charlotte MasonDo not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Charlotte MasonThe most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
Charlotte MasonThe children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible โeven where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.
Charlotte Mason