Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.