Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and mechanical elements, without getting any nearer the reason of its going by, or the point of its departure or destination.

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.