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| Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand. | | Uncategorized | |
| Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it | | People; World | |
| Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length | | Uncategorized | |
| Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. | | Uncategorized | |
| He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking | | Uncategorized | |
| Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close. | | Uncategorized | |
| Hell is a half-filled auditorium. | | Hell | |
| Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. | | Home | |
| Humor is the most engaging cowardice. | | Humor | |
| I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. | | Writers | |
| I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents. | | Uncategorized | |
| I go to school - to youth - to learn the future | | Youth | |
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| I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. | | Poetry | |
| I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. | | Uncategorized | |
| I met a Californian who would/ Talk California --a state so blessed/ He said, in climate, none had ever died there/ A natural death, and Vigilance Committees/ Had had to organize to stock the graveyards/ And vindicate the state's humanity. | | Uncategorized | |
| I never dared be a radical when young, for fear it would make me a conservative when old | | Uncategorized | |
