Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.