FAVORITE QUOTES
“I desire to be a mother—if only to give food to the craving activity of my soul…Maternity is an enterprise in which I have opened an enormous stake…Motherhood will develop my energy, enlarge my heart, and compensate me for all things by infinite joys!” Honore de Balzac
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” Louis Pasteur
“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Andy McIntyre
“Being educated they will know that they do not know everything; and that there exist objects in life besides power, and money, and sensual gratification; they will take long views; they will look backward to ancestors and forward to posterity. For them education will not terminate on commencement day.” Russell Kirk
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of self-discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.” Jim Rohm
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendel Holmes
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” Rene Descartes
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.” W. Beran Wolfe
“A Classical Education is the cultivation of wisdom, virtue and taste through meditation on the True the Good and the Beautiful.” Martin Cothran
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” Plato
“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” Francis Bacon
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.” Joseph Joubert
“To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.” Aldous Huxley
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.” James Baldwin
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Galileo Galilei
“That’s the key to education, I’ve always felt: not the contents of the mind, but the ambience of the space in which those contents are recognized and welcomed, elaborated and set to work.” James Mustich, Jr.
“From my great-grandfather, (I learned) not to go to the public schools, but to have good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.” Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
“And she is also here to enjoy. She will be here, like any other, once only. Therefore she must, in the midst of tragedy and hatred and neglect, mightily enjoy the readily enjoyable: sunshine and pets and children and conversation and games and travel (tiny or large) and books and walks and chocolate cake.” Gwendolyn Brooks