The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Dignity is an anachronism.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.