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

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

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

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.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.