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

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

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

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.