[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

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

Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.

The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.

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.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.