Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other’s being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life’s evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.