[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

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

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.