I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.