Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.