A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.