The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.

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

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.