“We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.”

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.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,

What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.