The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.

In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

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

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