Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.