Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

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

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.