"If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can th…"

"If you would only stop rating a child's ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our y…"

"Oh, what a lot of politically blind city and town officials I could point out within a day's auto trip from Branton H…"

"In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. You all know what honor you pay to your fla…"

"It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us…"

"Isn't it surprising what an array of things a woman can drag forth, burrowing into attics, rooms and nooks! Things lo…"

"Now Branton Hills had, as you know, built this school for public instruction; and, as with all such institutions, vis…"

"What a City Council should do, and what it will do, don't always match up."

"Youth, if adults will only admit that it has any brains at all, will stand out, today, in a most promising light. Phi…"

"A man should so carry on his daily affairs as to bring no word of admonition from anybody; for a man's doings should …"