For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.