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| My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. | | Uncategorized | |
| Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. | | Struggle | |
| Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void | | Uncategorized | |
| Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. | | Uncategorized | |
| Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. | | Uncategorized | |
| New habits can be launched . . . on condition of there being new stimuli and new excitements. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. | | Uncategorized | |
| No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him | | Uncategorized | |
| No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. | | Uncategorized | |
| No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed. | | Uncategorized | |
| No one has insight into all the ideals. No one should presume to judge them off-hand. The pretension to dogmatize about them in each other is the root of most human injustices and cruelties, and the trait in human character most likely to make the angels weep. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task | | Uncategorized | |
| Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? | | Uncategorized | |
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul
None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know
You can regenerate and make yourself what you will. | | Uncategorized | |
| Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. | | Uncategorized | |
| Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. | | Uncategorized | |
| One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. | | Enemies | |
| Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. | | Uncategorized | |
| Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture | | Belief; Success | |
