Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.