The Great Difficulty In Education Is To

Sanctity And Genius Are As Rebellious As Vice.

People Who Feel Themselves To Be Exiles In This World Are Mightily Inclined To Believe Themselves Citizens Of Another.

Boston Was A Moral And Intellectual Nursery, Always Busy Applying First Principles To Trifles.

Mortality Has Its Compensations; One Is That All Evils Are Transitory, Another That Better Times May Come.

The Family Is An Early Expedient And In Many Ways Irrational. If The Race Had Developed A Special Sexless Class To Be Nurses, Pedagogues, And Slaves, Like The Workers Among Ants And Bees, Then The Family Would Have Been Unnecessary. Such A Division Of Labor Would Doubtless Have Involved Evils Of Its Own, But It Would Have Obviated Some Drags And Vexations Proper To The Family.