Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

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.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

Did you ever think we would be anything other than unbelievable?

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

I am confident there is a cause for everyone. Think of how you can contribute; we all have different skills.

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.