The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?