For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.