The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.