Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.