Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

History is where tensions were.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.