Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.