Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

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

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.