What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.

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

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.