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.