The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time