Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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

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

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.