Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

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.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.