Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

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.

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.