What We Say of Each Other August 22, 1971
Pascal said many things worth citing, among them this⎯which we hope is not as true as some of the other things he said: “…I hold it to be a fact,” he said, ” that if all persons...
What We Now Know January 12, 1958
We often feel we want to see further into future. But also it is a fact that we are already know much more concerning the future than we sometimes seem to suppose. Emerson said that further...
What We Give Our Children June 27, 1971
There is a sentence from an unnamed source which says, “We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn’t have that we have neglected to give them what we did have.”1...
What We Don't Use Wastes Away November 22, 1970
From Hippocrates there is a sentence which says, “What we use flourishes. What w don’t use wastes away.”1 One way of expressing gratitude would be to use well what we have—material...
What We Choose to Think… October 30, 1960
There sometimes comes the question: Where do thoughts come from? How can they be controlled? By some it may be assumed that we are not responsible for the thoughts we think, since we cannot say for...
What We Are to Be, We Are Becoming… November 13, 1960
What Two Married People Owe Each Other April 4, 1965
John Ruskin said, “Do not think you can make a girl lovely, if you do not make her happy.”1 This moves us to the question of marriage, of parents, of children, and of all that happens at...
What to Overlook--and When February 11, 1968
“The art of being wise,” said William James, “is the art of knowing what to overlook.” Life without friends, without loved ones would be too altogether empty. But since...
What Takes Our Time…? December 11, 1960
To quote again from Carlyle: “Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” In this day and season of many pressures, we frequently feel we ought to do more than we...
What Should We Do for a Friend? August 11, 1957
Aside from loved ones, aside from those close of kin, friendship makes life most meaningful. With friendship nothing is impersonal. Everything is more enjoyed. Everything has greater purpose....
What Manner of Men They Were… July 24, 1960
Each generation leaves the future to take on some of the problems of the past, solving some and adding others, appraising principles, struggling with compromise, sometimes deviating, sometimes...
What Is Truth? December 15, 1940
There is an age-old question, the answer to which is earnestly important to all of us at all times: “What is truth?” There are those who would define it as a relative term⎯those who...
What Is Truth? August 18, 1946
What Is Man? July 12, 1942
It has been many centuries since the Psalmist asked this ever-recurring question: “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”1 Both before and since then, men have asked it of...
What Is Man? February 20, 1955
It has been many centuries since the Psalmist asked this ever-recurring question: “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?” Both before and since then, many have asked it over and...
What Is Love Without Truth? December 2, 1962
Marriage is such a basic, sacred and vital relationship in life that it must be fixed on solid foundations and cannot safely be subjected to pretense, to double standards, divided loyalties, and...
What Is a Gentleman…? September 1, 1957
Our consideration of friendship and confidence and trust leads us to consider what a gentleman is⎯or isn’t. For a word so freely used, it seems that few have defined it. Shakespeare suggested...
What Have We Got to Lose? April 8, 1962
Often we hear people discuss the odds on certain prospects or proposals—the chances of winning or losing, of success or failure in various matters. And sometimes we hear quite casually the...
What Have We Done With It? December 26, 1948
As we look back on a year, almost always we wonder where the time has gone; almost always we wonder what we have done with it. Sometimes we may feel that we have done something really worth while,...
What Has Happened to Virtue? June 27, 1965
“We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive,” said Cecil B. DeMille, “⎯something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of liberty. But...