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

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

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

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

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

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