It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.