Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.