Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.