Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

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

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

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

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.