G. Stanley Hall

“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

“The adolescent is a traveler in a new country.”

“The best education is that which gives to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.”

“The world is all before us, and we must make it what we will.”

“The worst of all superstitions is to think that we have none.”

“Man is a creature of moods, and there is no telling how he will be affected by a word, a glance, or a memory.”

“The first step toward knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”

“The man who feels that he must be something more than a plain man is a fool.”

“The love of nature is the first step toward the love of man.”

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

“Childhood is the paradise of the individual.”

“The old are the precious keepers of the past.”