Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.