In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.