“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.”

“… the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

“A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.”

“Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.”

“The chief business of education… is to attempt to form good habits in children, to improve the understanding, and to check the formation of bad habits.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“If this dogma be true, then God will never release a soul from hell—the pardoning power will never be exercised. How happy God will be and how happy all the saved will be, knowing that billions and billions of his children, of their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, wives, and children are convicts in the eternal dungeons, and that the words of pardon will never be spoken!”

“The hearsay of hearsay is not admissible as scholarship.”

“Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.”

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”