Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

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.

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

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.