The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

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

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.