The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times

If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.

-- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965), American poet, novelist, critic, children's book author and essayist, "The Taste of the Age," The Saturday Evening Post (26 July 1958), p. 290