The test is always how we treat the poor.

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

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.