I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.