To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.