We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.