As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

Belief creates the actual fact.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.