Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.