The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything