An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.