We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.