Everybody is as unstable as water.

How ironic the difference between me and my young son Absalom, between his soliciting the soundest means of overtaking me and having my life, while I was cudge…

The last thing any sensible human being should want is immortality. As it is, life lasts too long for most of us.

Now THERE'S a hollow state to be in, isn't it- to believe in God and get no sign that He's there.

I would not hesitate to say that nine out of ten of the critics of the peace movement get the argument turned upside down. 'You cannot change human nature' has…

Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.

A strange people, at once cruel and kind, strong and weak, and so quick to change from one extreme to the other that I could not predict what they would do.