I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.