The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.