I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

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

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.