"But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon."

"Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray."

"Creep into thy narrow bed, / Creep, and let no more be said!"

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."

"We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows"

"The land was ours before we were the land's."

"Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country."

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down."

"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"

"There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."

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

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."

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

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."

"`Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.' / `I should have called it / Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'"

"A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork"

"Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference"

“the truth is never horrible, only interesting.”

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.”