What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

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

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.