Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.