Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

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

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.

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.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.