G. Stanley Hall

“Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.”

“Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.”

“Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”

“Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and...”

“Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.”

“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

“Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.”

“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”