Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

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

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Cats 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.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The 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.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

We ask to be recognized as men.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.