Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
From William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
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