How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.