“A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should,in fact,it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always ...”

“As you turn into a daddy, soon now, youll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.”

“But that did no harm, and a sad young mind found a way to match things up with an antagonist. Now, just stand a child up against your body. How tall is it? Possibly only up to your hip. Still, a ma...”

“All that did a big lot toward showing Youth that this big world is not half bad, if adults will but watch, aid, and coach. And I will not stand anybodys snapping at a child! Particularly a tiny tot...”

“Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not,cannot,accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a balky child ...”

“If you would only stop rating a childs ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our young folks throughout this big world would show a surprisingly willing dispositio...”

“That was just grand, John, but I was thinking along a path varying a bit from that. You know that Mans brain is actually all of him. All parts of his body, as you follow down from his brain, act si...”

“Youth, if adults will only admit that it has any brains at all, will stand out, today, in a most promising light. Philosophically, Youth is Wisdom in formation, and with many thoughts startling to ...”

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”