The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command and control; does not include environmental clean-up, which is another maybe $10 billion or so. So that's about 5% of the U.S. military budget.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and mechanical elements, without getting any nearer the reason of its going by, or the point of its departure or destination.