I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.
What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. " Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.
I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.
I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.