The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.