In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
