If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. – Carroll Quigley
But, logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. – Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, "Weeds & Moss," My Irelan