Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

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

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.