 Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. |
| The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. |
| Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. |
| If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. |
| In business for yourself, not by yourself. |
| Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. |
| The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. |
| There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. |
| The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. |
| Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. |
| Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. |
| To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. |
| The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. |
| It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. |
| When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. |
| Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. |
| Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. |
| To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. |
| Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. |
| An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. |
