Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

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

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

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.