Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

History is a bath of blood.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.