The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

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

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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