Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true