Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

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

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

As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

There is no education but self-education.

Education is the science of relations