A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.