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

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.