Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.