With most men the knowledge that they must ultimately die does not weaken the pleasure in being at present alive. To the poet the world appears still more beautiful as he gazes at flowers that are doomed to wither, at springs that come to …

Linguists now generally agree that "grammar is based on usage," and that a grammarian has no more right to say how people ought to talk than a chemist has to say how molecules ought to act upon each other. The laws of grammar are like the …

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death…