The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.