Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

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.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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

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.