Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.