The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.