Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

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.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.