Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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