I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God a…

A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems, Who, void of envy, guile, and lust of gain, On virtue still, and nature's pleasing themes, Poured forth his unpr…

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce t…