In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -W. H. Auden.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Anger doesn't win games

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.

The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are "our children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.