The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.