We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.