"The true is the name for whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite assignable reasons."

"When we survey the whole field of actual experience, we find it to be a tissue of different kinds of reality."

"Men differ from each other in nothing so much as in the way in which they come to perceive."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For every one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laughter."

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."