Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'