Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would read more

He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

Not what we give, but what we share,--
For the gift without the giver is bare.

Not what we give, but what we share,--
For the gift without the giver is bare.

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured read more

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
[Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
[Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!

Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.