Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

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

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

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