In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that, ” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

Kyle gazed down at her. “I lied when I said I followed you to the bar because you’re hot.” He touched her cheek. “I saw you laughing with your friends, and your smile sucked me right in.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.