There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.