'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

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

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections