Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

New habits can be launched.

Truth happens to an idea