The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

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

I will act as if I do make a difference.

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.