The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.