Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.