The true poem is the poet's mind.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.