No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.

We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.