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.

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."

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.