Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the p...resident of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A grea...t soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sun...set, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of ...God, find the earth below not in unison with these,--but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust,--some of them suicides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talent...s may be, if man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;Mcinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world,--this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make... me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult. I grasp the hands of those next to me, and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work, taught by an instinct, that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is als...o the law of the human mind?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »