When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.