Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.