Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault- they watched the foot come towards their face.

...you're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.