Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.