Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?