Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience