We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.