When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

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

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.