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.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.