Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.