Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

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

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.

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.