Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.