Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.