Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The plural of spouse is spice.