No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

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