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.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.