All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.

We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.