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

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.