Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.