Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

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

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.