If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

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