Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Joseph Wood Krutch

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

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