Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.