Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.