Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and...

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of...

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of...

But even the longest day wears to sunset.

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, r...

In that wounded place,buried betweenmy ribs and letting go,I miss you.

Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You...

This is the opposite of the free market.

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from...

Vast skies in the Australian desertwaves that don't movewe slide surf glide like condors

Give An African Child Or Adult A Enabled Environment And Proper Facilities Like In The West And See The Many Great Wonders That Would Be Manifested Through This Often Criticized Race. In My Own Case I...

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.