We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.