There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.