It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

They tell me every day is there Not more nor less than Sunday gay; In shining robes and garments fair The people walk upon their way. One gazes there on castle…

When I was fifteen and had quit school forever, I went to work in a vineyard near Sanger with a number of Mexicans, one of whom was only a year or two older th…

Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattained, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?