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.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

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.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

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.