Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person in all his human uniqueness, an impression which is accessible alike to the layman and to the expert, to believer and non-believer. No reader of the gospel story can fail to be impressed by Jesus' humble submission to the will of his God on the one hand, and his mastery of all situations on the other; by his penetrating discernment of human motives and his authoritative demand of radical obedience on the one hand, and his gracious, forgiving acceptance of sinners on the other. There is nothing, either in the Messianic hopes of pre-Christian Judaism or in the later Messianic beliefs of the early Christian Church to account for this portrait. It is characterized by an originality and freshness which is beyond the power of invention. (Continued tomorrow).

Creation of woman from the rib of Man: She was not made from his head to top him; nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born, Then will they be exempt and free From love's doubt and anxiety.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite.

We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.