No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

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

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.