An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.