Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

I wanted two girls, " she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard

Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.