We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.