“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children”

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts”

“Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace”

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well”

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing”