It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.