In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.