America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.