People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

All students can learn.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.