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

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. . . . Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— 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

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

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch