Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.