I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.