If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.