Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.