a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Belief creates the actual fact.

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.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.