We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Service makes men competent.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.