Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle." "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle-it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Dr. Dorian.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.