Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Smartass Disciple: How the hell do we find the truth ?Master of Stupidity: Just seek it with hope it’ll find you.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.