To the several perversities of the day a man should always oppose only the great masses of universal history.
No one can live much with children without finding that they always react to any outward influence upon them.
With any specially childish nature the reaction is even passionate, while its action is energetic.
That is why children's lives are a series of refined judgments, not to say prejudices; and to efface a rapid but partial perception in order to make way for a more general one, time is necessary. To bear this in mind is one of the teacher's greatest duties.
Friendship can only be bred in practice and be maintained by practice. Affection, nay, love itself, is no help at all to friendship. True, active, productive friendship consists in keeping equal pace in life: in my friend approving my aims, while I approve his, and in thus moving forwards together steadfastly, however much our way of thought and life may vary.