The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.