We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.