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.

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

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

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.

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