“The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

New habits can be launched.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

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.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn.

As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.