Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

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

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.