The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.