Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.