I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.