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.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.