Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?