Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.