Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.