Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.