What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.