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.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

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

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.

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.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.