I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

To waste time is to waste life.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

First of all, very few people listen to Hugh Hewitt, radio show, that's the good news. Check out the ratings.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.