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

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

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.

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.

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

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.