There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.