Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

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

We have forgotten the beast and the flower not in order to remember either ourselves or God, but in order to forget everything except the machine.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.