Our Books Approach Very Slowly The Things

When Life Has Been Well Spent, Age Is A Loss Of What It Can Well Spare,--muscular Strength, Organic Instincts, Gross Bulk, And Works That Belong To These. But The Central Wisdom, Which Was Old In Infancy, Is Young In Fourscore Years, And Dropping Off Obstructions, Leaves In Happy Subjects The Mind Purified And Wise.

Whence, Then, This Worship Of The Past? The Centuries Are Conspirators Against The Sanity And Authority Of The Soul.

The Secret In Education Lies In Respecting The Student.

A Friend May Be Nature's Most Magnificent Creation.

We Cannot Overstate Our Debt To The Past, But The Moment Has The Supreme Claim.