Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Service makes men competent.