If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

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

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

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

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

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.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.