Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.