Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373 Logic may be viewed, perhaps, as a machine which is designed, at best, to be such that when we feed into it certain data and turn the logic crank, we inevitably get certain conclusions out the other end. Logic is designed to give inevitably true results starting from known true -- or assumed-to-be-true -- premises. Logic is a wonderful tool when we want only logical conclusions. We should not reject such a machine merely because it is not equipped to handle all of reality. The scientist who commits himself to use a logic machine is doing wisely, qua scientist, for use on data of science. But if he feeds into that machine convictions that there is not God, or ignores God because He is not in his corpus of data, and then draws from his logic the conclusion that God does not exist, his conclusion is irrelevant. Logic is a tool; it should not be made into a religion.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

A student writes a letter via telegram to his Dad . . .It goes . . . no fun, send mon, your Son!Dad write back saying . . . so sad, too bad, your Dad!

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet .

I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun.

Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.