"To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!"

“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”

Source : William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

“God is too big for just one religion.”

“Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.”

“Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.”

“Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.”

“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

“Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.”

“I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.”