Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

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