Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?