The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

History is as much an art as a science.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.