Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Trophy hunters are like politicians, they both like to pull the trigger from the comfort of a safe distance.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.