"i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and f…"

"Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born."

"Unschuld ist das Kind und Vergessen, ein Neubeginnen, ein Spiel, ein aus sich rollendes Rad, eine erste Bewegung, ein…"

"After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present …"

"Those that say yes are rewarded by the adventure they have. Those that say no are rewarded by the safety they attain."

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the son…"

"In a certain sense lexicography may be considered a superior discipline to lexicology, for results are more important…"

"Editing a dictionary isn’t like editing any other book or magazine," the professor pointed out. "It’s a peculiar worl…"

"Liberty of conscience was the one great value which the common people had preserved from the Commonwealth. The countr…"

"If it is the drive of our time, after freedom of thought is won, to pursue it to that perfection through which it cha…"