My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief callfor a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.