Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

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.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

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

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.