The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.