Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferri...ng property without producing any intermediate good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermedi...ate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men's faces or their humors do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread bet...ween him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibilty of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No such sermons have come to us here out of England, in late years, as those of this preacher,--sermons to kings, and sermons to p...easants, and sermons to all intermediate classes. It is in vain that John Bull, or any of his cousins, turns a deaf ear, and pretends not to hear them: nature will not soon be weary of repeating them. There are words less obviously true, more for the ages to hear, perhaps, but none so impossible for this age not to hear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermed...iate in its nature between land and sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the co...urage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselv...es as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in... what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parents ...during this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if t...hey happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »