In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Education is preparation to live completely.
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.