A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

• Folks never understand the folks they hate.
• There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
• It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
• Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.