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.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.