Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.