Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.