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

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.