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?

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

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

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

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.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

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