Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

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.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.