Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

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.

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

Everyone has a good heart. It's our mind which gets polluted by so much negativity from the external world.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.