I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.