Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

not fare well, but fare forward