"The art of being wise is the..." - Quote by William James

“Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.”

“Act the part and you will become the part.”

“The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.”

“The true guide of life is to do what is right.”

“Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.”

“Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.”

“The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.”

“There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.”

“Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.”