We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.