Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

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.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

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