A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.