In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.