My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

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

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.