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.

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

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.