True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.