Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

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