Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

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.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.