How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

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

It is your friends who make your world.