If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion, but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Politics is for the present but an equation is for eternity.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Religion is three-fourths character. Only those who preserve character can be pronounced truly religious.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Religion strives to destroy just this vicious tendency, so it has to be supported and not condemned. What has to be condemned is the narrow perverted attitude of hating those who do not agree with

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities for that is to evade his obligations.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

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