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

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

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

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

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.