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

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.

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

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

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.