There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organised bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our convenience, but truth does not forget us. Prosperity cannot save itself without moral foundation. Until man can see the gaping chasm between his full storehouse and his humanity, until he can feel the unity of mankind, the kind of barbarism which you call civilisation will exist.

There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because of their wish for permanence and not perfection; they love t…

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea a…

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all t…

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.