Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.