The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

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

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command and control; does not include environmental clean-up, which is another maybe $10 billion or so. So that's about 5% of the U.S. military budget.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

The secret of happiness is something to do.