Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.