What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

I always entertain great hopes.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.