Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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.

I refused to march because George Bush marched.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)