O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.