The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

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

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.