It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

If you aren't breaking tackles, you aren't doing anything.