Ah, tell them they are men!

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.

I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.