Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.