Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.