An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?