Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.