Error is but the shadow of the truth.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

An idea is only an idea until you breathe life into it.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.