Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.