Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

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.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.