It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I always entertain great hopes.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.