The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

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.

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.

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

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

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.