Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Every claim creates an obligation.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

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

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