The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.