It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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.

You are not in the universe

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.