“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ”

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

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

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”

“For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for.”

“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”

“As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ”