Children notice things first, people later.

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.