Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it …