Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

Argument

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Bosses and Employees

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Communication

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Draft

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Failure

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Fools and Foolishness

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Hell

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Income

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Life and Living

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Marriage

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Optimism

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Poetry and Poets

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Power

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.

Risk

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Society

To be social is to be forgiving.

Time and Time Management

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman!0.

Will and Will Power

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.