We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.