Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.