Humor is the most engaging cowardice. |
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. |
I always entertain great hopes. |
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. |
I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents. |
I go to school - to youth - to learn the future |
I had a lovers quarrel with the world. |
I have been one acquainted with the night. |
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. |
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. |
I met a Californian who would/ Talk California --a state so blessed/ He said, in climate, none had ever died there/ A natural death, and Vigilance Committees/ Had had to organize to stock the graveyards/ And vindicate the state's humanity. |
I never dared be a radical when young, for fear it would make me a conservative when old |
I never take my own side in a quarrel |
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. |
I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference |