The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.