Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.