The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.