I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.