Language Grows Out Of Life, Out Of

It's A Great Mistake, I Think, To Put Children Off With Falsehoods And Nonsense, When Their Growing Powers Of Observation And Discrimination Excite In Them A Desire To Know About Things.

A Strenuous Effort Must Be Made To Train Young People To Think For Themselves And Take Independent Charge Of Their Lives.

Children Require Guidance And Sympathy Far More Than Instruction.

Is It Not True, Then, That My Life With All Its Limitation Touches At Many Points The Life Of The World Beautiful? Everything Has Its Wonders, Even Darkness And Silence, And I Learn, Whatever State I May Be, Therein To Be Content.

The Truth Is Not Wonderful Enough To Suit The Newspapers; So They Enlarge Upon It, And Invent Ridiculous Embellishments.