Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

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

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

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

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.