He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

Enthusiasm moves the world.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Ask with urgency and passion.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.