When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.