A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
– 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
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
– 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
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
– 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
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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.