Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.