There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

Life was for living, so why was I wasting it?

Hope was never meant to beA future shared alone, As life cannot be won or lostIt was never ours to own.

I think you can go to school at any age.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

I like to consider myself young at heart and ageless.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.