The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.