Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

Science should be on tap, not on top.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.