As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

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

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.

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.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

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

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.