The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

...doing more with less.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

Tension is the great integrity.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.