Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.