Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.