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

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

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

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 disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.