Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

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.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.