It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

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

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.