You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

What holds attention determines action.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.