The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.