What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.