Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief callfor a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.