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

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.