A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.