Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.