"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

"Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear."

"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

"A life well-lived is a testament that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."

"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."