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

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.