Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.