I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Why do men go to zoos?

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.