Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.