"History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again."

"The movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; first the Moon, and then Mars, and then who knows …"

"I think Genesis in the Old Testament has it wrong. I don’t think we were thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Just look …"

"Long after I’m gone, people will have these paintings with dust and footprints in them. It will be something really s…"

"Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"