“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”

“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”

“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”

“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”

“Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.”

“Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.”

“Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”

“The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.”

“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”

“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”

“As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.”