Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

We do not see the lens through which we look.