To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.