Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.