"A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentles…"

"Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps."

"Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction’s roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof…"

"Compromise? Of course we compromise. But compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nati…"

"Ah! some love Paris, And some, Purdue. But love is an archer with a low I.Q. A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity…"

"Prince, I warn you, under the rose, Time is the thief you cannot banish. These are my daughters, I suppose. But where…"

"The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street— A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bor…"

"Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made…"

"Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."

"I’ll read as I please—a spot of science fiction, a taste of Jane Austen. Mark Twain and Keats and Agatha Christie sha…"