I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.