A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

A good deed is the best prayer

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.