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Our Notion Of The Perfect Society Embraces The Family As Its Center And Ornament, And This Paradise Is Not Secure Until Children Appear To Animate And Complete The Picture.

A Birthday Is A Good Time To Begin A New; Throwing Away The Old Habits, As You Would Old Clothes, And Never Putting Them Again.

Science Has Grown Frightfully Audacious In These Days -- Swift-footed, Ponderous, Careering Over Her Iron Ways With Unslacking Pace. This Rampant Dragon, On Which I Am Mounted, See How He Bends His Once Stiff Neck To His Rider, Champing His Checked Bit And Pawing The Dust, Impatient To Leap Around The Globe. Genius Is Prescient, Foresees Its Own Might. Man Is Striving Through These Iron-ribbed, Steam-sped Hippogriffs, To Recover His Lost Ubiquity And Omnipotence, And Threatens Soon To Grasp In His Ample Palm, And Fix With Flaming Eye-ball, The Elemental Forces!

Without A Mythology, Faith Is Impersonal And Heartless.

Our Bravest And Best Lessons Are Not Learned Through Success, But Through Misadventure.