Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.