Education

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast

The home is the chief school of human virtues

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on