Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.