Clarence Day

“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”

“Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.”

“As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.”

“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”

“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”

“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”

“If your parents didn’t have any children, there is a good chance that you won’t have any.”

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared-for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so -- and all the more -- what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is -- blind or not -- a good world to live in, a promising universe.”