Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock