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

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

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.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.