If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.