[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

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

The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.