Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.