Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Sit Down - What to do if a parent wants to get their child's attention.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.