From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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 true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

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