The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.