If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

New habits can be launched.

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

The strenuous life tastes better

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.