The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

We [must not] underestimate the enormity of the claim [made by the Jews]. Again and again in the Pentateuch, the psalms, the prophets, and the subsequent writings which derive from them, the claim is made that the creator of the entire universe has chosen to live uniquely on a small ridge called Mount Zion, near the eastern edge of the Judean hill-country. The sheer absurdity of this claim, from the standpoint of any other worldview (not least that of Enlightenment philosophy), is staggering. The fact that Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Egypt again, Syria and now Rome had made explicit mockery of the idea did not shake this conviction, but only intensified it. This was what Jewish monotheism looked like on the ground.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it.

His face puckered up like he had eaten a lemon.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.

No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.