Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.