Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Sometimes a self-love soak can right the world and recharge the heart. Draw a bath and step into bliss.

You are created with a purpose

People say conversation is a lost art

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.

Each man has his fancy.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.