In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.