It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

Inside Junior's it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly.

I'm an American before any party preference.