There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.