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.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition