Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.