01UndatedCats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
03UndatedTrue tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
04UndatedThe most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
05UndatedCats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
06UndatedCivilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
08UndatedFew 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.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
09UndatedA humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
10UndatedWhen a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
11UndatedThough 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.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
12UndatedSecurity depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
13UndatedIt is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
14UndatedThe 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.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
15UndatedIf we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
16UndatedCats 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.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
17UndatedIf people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.Joseph Wood Krutch / quote ↗
