Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

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

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.