To Die Laughing Must Be The Most

Every Poem Should Remind The Reader That They Are Going To Die.

I Have No Faith In Human Perfectability. I Think That Human Exertion Will Have No Appreciable Effect Upon Humanity. Man Is Now Only More Active - Not More Happy - Nor More Wise, Than He Was 6000 Years Ago.

The Idea Of God, Infinity, Or Spirit Stands For The Possible Attempt At An Impossible Conception.

The Romans Worshipped Their Standard; And The Roman Standard Happened To Be An Eagle. Our Standard Is Only One Tenth Of An Eagle,--a Dollar, But We Make All Even By Adoring It With Tenfold Devotion.

Where The Good And The Bad And The Worst And The Best Have Gone To Their Eternal Rest.