If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.