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

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.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.