The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

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.

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.

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.