Education is the science of relations

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.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

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.

If you are the reflection of light, then how can you fear darkness?

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.