Happiness Is A Kind Of Gratitude And

If We Are Deprived Of Hope As Well As Fear, We Are Compensated By Being Given An Almost Endless Patience For Enduring Or Simply For Waiting.

There Is No Conceivable Human Action Which Custom Has Not At One Time Justified And At Another Condemned.

The Grand Paradox Of Our Society Is This: We Magnify Man’s Right But We Minimize His Capacities.

Poetry, Mythology, And Religion Represent The World As Man Would Like To Have It, While Science Represents The World As He Gradually Comes To Discover It.

There Are Some Optimists Who Search Eagerly For The Skunk Cabbage Which In February Sometimes Pushes Itself Up Through The Ice, And Who Call It A Sign Of Spring. I Wish That I Could Feel That Way About It, But I Do Not. The Truth Of The Matter, To Me, Is Simply That Skunk Cabbage Blooms In The Winter Time.