I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

We know too much and feel too little.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

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.