A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.