The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

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.

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.