To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.