"Oh it is good to ride and run, To roam the reenwood wild and free; To hunt, to idle in the sun, To leap into the laug…"

"I count each day a little life, With birth and death complete; I cloister it from care and strife And keep it sane an…"

"Marriage is a bachelor’s punishment for his sins"

"The world is full of scribbling Nobodies who think they’re scribbling Somebodies."

"Dignity is a tin god in the temple of bunk."

"After fifty don’t go to a funeral if you can avoid it. It’s bad enough to go to your own when times comes."

"Nature is the nest professor in the end."

"Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark."

"There's the wretched rent to pay, Yet I glower at pen and ink: Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray, It is later than you think!"

"Just have one more try - it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living that's hard."