So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.