The best grammarian still can’t write a verse.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek they all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate,...

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn’t spoil.

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man’s mental scope.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the...