To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

History is a bath of blood.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.