Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

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.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'