Joseph Wood Krutch
» Ask » “Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
» Change » “The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”
» Conflict » “What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”
» Nature » “Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.”
» Passion » “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 form and ceremonies.”
» Security » “Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
