Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.