War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.