The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
If you want to feel at home, stay home.
We are all citizens of history.
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.