The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.