The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Columbus gave the world another world.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.