We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

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.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.