We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.