Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.