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.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.