If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

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.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

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