The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

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

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

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.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.