An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.