Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

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

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

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.