The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibilit… - Archibald MacLeish

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold — brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.