We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.