Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia..

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 greatnes….

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence..

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be a….

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlo….

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence..

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable..

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are calle….

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many..

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

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone..

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want..

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane..

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing..

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

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is..

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by antici….

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit..

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude..

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself..

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been mor….