I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.