The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will?
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.
For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
