Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. And these habitudes which lie below the level of reflection are just those which have been formed in the constant give and take of relationship with others.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.