Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.