“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design”

What Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.