The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.