The body’s ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

Hans clacked his side-lips. “Do you have the sentence in your head that tomorrow’s procession will halt this pest of yours, that it will bar the small-lives from the High Woods?””If it is as you...

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a...

The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride – and prive loves...

One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even...

Jesus said the weeds would grow with the wheat until the Judgement,” Dietrich answered, “so one finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what...

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

For what purpose have you prayed?””For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I...