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.
G. Stanley HallAdolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
G. Stanley HallEvery theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley HallMuscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.
G. Stanley HallDaily 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.
G. Stanley Hall