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

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

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

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.