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.

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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

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

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.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.