Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.