Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

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

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.