We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.