The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.