You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.