We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

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

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

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.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.