Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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 world is Absolutely Brilliant. Difficult sometimes. Confusing often. But humorous almost always.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.