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

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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.