We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

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

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.