The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.