The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.