I Want To Be A Free Rover

It Is Hard To Tell Which Is Worse; The Wide Diffusion Of Things That Are Not True, Or The Suppression Of Things That Are True.

The Sick-room Becomes The Scene Of Intense Convictions; And Among These, None, It Seems To Me, Is More Distinct And Powerful Than That Of The Permanent Nature Of Good, And The Transient Nature Of Evil.

We Are Not Responsible For Our Feelings, As We Are For Our Principles And Actions. ... Our Care, Then, Should Be To Look To Our Principles, And To Avoid All Anxiety About Our Emotions. Their Nature Can Never Be Wrong Where Our Course Of Action Is Right, And For Their Degree We Are Not Responsible.

When Once Experience Taught Me That I Could Work When I Chose, And Within A Quarter Of An Hour Of My Determining To Do So, I Was Relieved, In A Great Measure, From Those Embarrassments And Depressions Which I See Afflicting Many An Author Who Waits For A Mood Instead Of Summoning It, And Is The Sport, Instead Of The Master, Of His Own Impressions And Ideas.

School Is No Place Of Education For Any Children Whatever Till Their Minds Are Well Put In Action. This Is The Work Which Has To Be Done At Home, And Which May Be Done In All Homes Where The Mother Is A Sensible Woman.