Who said “For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise…”?

“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.”

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”

“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”

“[A]rt is limitation. [...] The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”