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.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.