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

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

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 love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.