You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.