The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.