Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity… – Heinrich Heine (d.1856), “Ideas: Book Le Grand,” 1826, translated from German by
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February…. Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar. – Joseph Wood Krutch
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. – Eleanor Holmes Norton
