"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."

"POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines."

"I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."

"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."

"LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)"

"The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas."

"I understand life isn't fair, but why couldn't it just once be unfair in my favor?"

"Grownups seemed to think that accidents of chronology should oblige children to get along."

"I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you."

"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade."