If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.