“Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.