My Small Boat

Hot dogs: feeding the hand that bites it.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.

I’m definitely the best king in England at the moment.

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Clopton’s Law: For every credibility gab, there is a gullibility fill.

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

He who is not a socialist at 19, has no heart. He who is still a socialist at 30, has no brain.

A Dream

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro’ storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth’s day-star?

He was a poet and hated the approximate.

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.