A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

I don't know how electricity works. All I know is that it calms me.

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no--you can always change your mind.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.