Teachers Affect Eternity. There Is

If Any One Of Us Has Had An Ambition Higher Than That Of Making Money; A Motive Better Than That Of Expediency; A Faith Warmer Than That Of Reasoning; A Love Purer Than That Of The Self; He Has Been Slow To Express It; Still Slower To Urge It.

A Certain Secret Jealousy Of The British Minister Is Always Lurking In The Breast Of Every American Senator, If He Is Truly Democratic; For Democracy, Rightly Understood, Is The Government Of The People, By The People, For The Benefit Of Senators, And There Is Always A Danger That The British Minister May Not Understand This Political Principle As He Should.

A Boy's Will Is His Life, And He Dies When It Is Broken, As The Colt Dies In Harness, Taking A New Nature In Becoming Tame.

The Common View Of Marriage As A Primitive Institution Implies In The Man More Than Arbitrary Superiority, Such As He Exercised Over The Child, Which Still Remained Free. The Woman's Slavery Was Assumed To Be For Life.

Education Should Try To Lessen The Obstacles, Diminish The Friction, Invigorate The Energy, And Should Train Minds To React, Not At Haphazard, But By Choice, On The Lines Of Force That Attract Their World. What One Knows Is, In Youth, Of Little Moment; They Know Enough Who Know How To Learn.