Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

Who do we think we are - we small creatures with three - pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the...

God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.

You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

People deal with their shadow side in a number of ways, the most common way being to find outside enemies and point to them, demonizing them and blaming them for long lists of perceived evils. This...

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Would it hurt to die?

"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know my son... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

It’s been a long time since you’ve been teaching? asked her to Hagrid. Harry noticed that she was looking successively at Dean, who had a big cut on his cheek, Lavande, whose dress was scorched in...

He that's convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.

It's the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together. More the members, more chance for each one separate man having justice done him.

Put in your pipe, and smoke it

I never knew what sad work the reading of old - letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as happy as letters could be - at least those early letters were....

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

... Tell me what he was like as a baby." "Why, Margaret, you must not be hurt, but he was much prettier than you were. I remember, when I first saw you in Dixon's arms, I said, 'Dear, what an ugly...

To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that...

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do...

He was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he has left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges, Thomas Wolfe declares at the end of Look...

DuBois's observations were back. She'd largely recovered from the Graham ignominy.

She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream.

The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Do you not find me beautiful?" Very beautiful. Beautiful like people are beautiful who have little time left to live.

Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house.

I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.