I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.