The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Truth is something that happens to an idea.