Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.