He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

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

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.

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

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

I love you as New Englanders love pie!