Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.

No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.