Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.