If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.