Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

Religion is caught, not taught.