You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.