Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.