I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.