Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

I am without religious feeling.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.