And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

They saw their injured country's woe.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)

...she had a new handbag to go with her new attitude.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

Human life commences at the time of conception.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

Having seen what I've seen in South Sudan, there's no way I can't talk about it.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.