Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

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.

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