True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

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.

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

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.