A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.