"Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind;..." - Quote by William James

“From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.”

“In business for yourself, not by yourself.”

“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.”

“Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.”

“I bought some powdered water, but I don’t know what to add.”

“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”

“The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.”

“All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.”

“The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”