And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.