Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

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

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.