A Library Should Be Like A Pair

The God Worth Worshipping Is The One Who Pays Us The Compliment Of Self - Regulation, And We Might Return It By Minding Our Own Business.

The Belief In Potential Human Virtue Underlies The Whole Idea Of The Bill Of Rights; The Document Is A Very Tough Guardian Of That Belief.

Slum Kids Die Slowly, Their Lives Eroded At So Languid A Pace That Even They Would Have Trouble Tracing The Disintegration. To The Children Of War Death Explodes Like A Car Bomb.

Why, For Example, Do The Great Writers Use Anticipation Instead Of Surprise? Because Surprise Is Merely An Instrument Of The Unusual, Whereas Anticipation Of A Consequence Enlarges Our Understanding Of What Is Happening.

Death Is Too Much For Men To Bear, Whereas Women, Who Are Practiced In Bearing The Deaths Of Men Before Their Own And Who Are Alsopracticed In Bearing Life, Take Death Almost In Stride. They Go To Meet Death--that Is, They Attempt Suicide--twice As Often As Men, Though Men Are More "successful" Because They Use Surer Weapons, Like Guns.