When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.