Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

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.