Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.