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

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.

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

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

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

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?