Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.