For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

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

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.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.