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

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

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

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

I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.