The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.