Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.