In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

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

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Act the part and you will become the part.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.