What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

The perfection of rottenness.