War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.