Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

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