When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

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.