Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Koekebakker, I feel so strange inside.' 'Well you certainly smell like jenever, ' I said. 'No, ' Japi said, ' it's not the jenever. I think my soul is too big.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is but the conviction that there is a mystery and that it is greater than us.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.