Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.