In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it