Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

New habits can be launched.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.

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

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.