Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.

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

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.