“How delicious it is to sit down with a twig.”

“Consider, too, what an unequaled mental training the child-naturalist is getting for any study or calling under the sun -the powers of attention, of discrimination, of patient pursuit, growing with his growth, what will they not fit him for?”

“Love, and the service of love, are the only things that count.”

“The method is as old as the mind of man, the distressful fact is that it has been made so little use of in general education.”