Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

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

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

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.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.