A mighty pain to love it is and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all pains the greatest pain it is to love but love in vain.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Never lose the power to love.

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

We're all secretly idiots inside.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.