Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

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

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.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.