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.

Muscles 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.

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

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

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

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