Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.

I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

Plant your flag, respectfully stand for truth, justice, and freedom for all.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.

Virtue is the truest liberty.