Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?