Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

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

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

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.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

I will act as if I do make a difference.