The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.