Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.