The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.