Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.