“The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance.”

“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.”

“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”

“Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.”

“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.”

“...lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring...”

“[N]o such thing as objective writing, . . . every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more about the author and his time than it does about the ostensible subject.”