In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.