A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

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

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

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.