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

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

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

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.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

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

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.