You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.