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

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.