The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

New habits can be launched.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

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

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.