Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.