Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
G. Stanley Hall
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
G. Stanley Hall
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
G. Stanley Hall
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 germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
G. Stanley Hall
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
