Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.