Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.