Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.