If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

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

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.

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.