The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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.

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.

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.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

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

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.