Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.