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!

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.