The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.