The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.