All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

All religions begin with the cry Help.

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

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.