Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.