Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.