Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

The strenuous life tastes better

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.