Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

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.