Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.