Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

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.