But nothing must be expected from them if we are ill and thirsty; and what is to become of them when temptations and trials come, and to whom do they not come?
Our educational products must mature slowly, but thoroughly, to genuine human beings whose inner selves will be deficient in no respect.

Let the tailor provide for the clothes." Froebel himself was certainly very careless in the choice of his.

The long cloth coat in which I always saw him was fashioned by the village tailor, and the old gentleman probably liked the garment because half a dozen children hung by the tails when he crossed the court-yard.
It needed to be durable; but the well-fitting coats worn by Barop and Langethal were equally so, and both men believed that the good gardener should also care for the form of the fruit he cultivates, because, when ripe, it is more valuable if it looks well.

They, too, cared nothing for wax fruits; nay, did not even consider them because they did not recognize them as fruit at all.
Froebel's conversion was delayed, but after his marriage it was all the more thorough.

The choice of this intellectual and kindly natured man, who set no value on the external forms of life, was, I might say, "naturally" a very elegant woman, a native of Berlin, the widow of the Kriegsrath Hofmeister.