The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Beer soothes the upset soul.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.