True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.