Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. • 18th-century English writer and moralist Samuel Johnson [...]

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created, but that is not true, because [...]

All the world’s a stage,  And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances, And [...]

One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life. • Mark Twain, "Innocents [...]

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. • [...]

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell [...]

I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, ‘No thanks, I’m not going that far.’ • [...]

Civil war continues raging unabated in Syria, with the murky conflict in its ninth year. Some 3,500 noncombatants have died [...]

Writing from Florence, columnist Henry Bennett sees far more harm than good coming from the existing approach.

Former U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once made an unusual suggestion about how people should lead their lives. "Do one [...]

Should this image of the Paris catacoombs disturb you? Ask columnist Henry Bennett, whose 50 years of travel (mis)adventures include locking himself in with the skulls.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. • Canadian author Sandra Lake This New Year's marked the 50th anniversary [...]