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

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

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

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.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.