...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs. The part of our social order which can or ought...

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student....

Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made Ameri...

Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to the world which has been entrusted to the Church. The vocation is answered in the home and office and factory and field. There it ...

Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world....

You are looking as fresh as paint....

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts....

Although it scarcely looks comparable to anything else in his career, [F for Fake, a] Quixotic essay in fictional documentary—conjured, it seems, out of nothing more substantial than an extraordinary dexterity at the editing table—may b...

Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men; The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty and then The Emperor made history--and no one blamed the cook....

The English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) based his thought on the principles of absolute idealism. He rigorously criticized all philosophies based on the "school of experience." Born in Clapham on Jan. 30, 1846, F. H. Br...

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing....

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great....

Francis Lee Bailey (born 1933) is a high-profile superstar attorney and best-selling author. "The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos," proclaimed F. Lee Bailey to U.S. News & World Report. "Few people w...

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up....

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again....

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, the books, the quarterbacks. His own car...

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through....

Flora Macdonald Mayor has been compared as a novelist to Jane Austen because of her provincial settings and the uneventful lives of her characters but chiefly because of the obvious influence of Austen on her language and invention. Their ...

F. R. Leavis is widely considered the most important literary critic of the twentieth century. He is identified with the consolidation of English as a university subject and with the production of an influential map of the English literary...

Although the author of only a small body of poems, F. S. Flint had a major impact on modern poetry. In the decade from 1909 to 1919, Flint was the leading popularizer of French poets, poetic forms, and critical theories in British journals...

On reading Soldiers Bathing, E. M. Forster claimed it was one of the three most outstanding books to have appeared in England in 1954. In general, however, knowledge of the work of F.T. Prince has been confined to other poets, the best of ...

The scholarship already accumulated on the subject of F. O. Matthiessen may be larger than that on any other American scholar born in the twentieth century. As the collective reminiscences published in the Monthly Review shortly after his ...

In 1939 Great Britain was in desperate need of a fighter that had the ability to escort bombers deep into enemy territory. In response to this need, North American Aviation developed what would become known as the P-51 Mustang. Betw...

(1316–1374?), founder of the Lan Xang kingdom of Cambodia. Fa Ngoum or Fa Ngum was born in Muang Sawa, a Lao principality located on the site of present-day Luang Prabang, and founded the Lan Xang Hom Khao (better known as Lan Xang)...

Perhaps the quintessential teen idol of the 1950s, Fabian was only fourteen when he was plucked from obscurity and thrust into the idol-making machinery by Philadelphia record producer-promoter Bob Marcucci. Though he had failed his high s...