If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

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.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.