Great Throughts Treasury

"To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need."

"It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear."

"We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us."