Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Only poor men get hanged.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

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

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.