Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

The strenuous life tastes better

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

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.