To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.