Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
From Joseph Wood Krutch
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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.
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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