As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

When an impressive level skill is accompanied with consistent action on the right plan, success becomes the only possible destination.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.