The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.