Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

The fact is that I loved being in England.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.