Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

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

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.

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

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.