Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

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