And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.