War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.