Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.