Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,

Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an inn.

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 The term "baptism in (or of) the Spirit" conjures up the idea of a separate initiatory experience which every Christian ought to enjoy, whereas evangelicalism is noted for its stress upon a "conversion" experience which marks the beginning of the believer's relationship to his Lord. Too often, alas, conversion has been the end as well as the beginning, with the result that some Christians have looked back, with mingled delight and wistfulness to a past event that now seems to have diminished relevance to daily living. We can fully understand, then, the appeal of a movement which promises a new dimension of Christian living, there in the New Testament, and now available in everyday experience.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.