The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

Love is growing up.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

The free man is the man with no fears.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

It bothers me when I don't score.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.